Re: [maemo-developers] desktop integration (resend)

[Kalle Vahlman]

On 5/7/06, Danny Milosavljevic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Hi,

Oookay...

I just spent four hours trying to find out how
to integrate an application into the maemo
environment.


This is a very popular problem it seems. It's pretty sad to be so as
the actual procedure is not that complex really, but there are few
things that are obviously not clear enough (or even wrong) in the
documentation...


By now I tried every single one of the ~ 43000 (j/k)
combinations that could be valid in the
- desktop file


The icon name should not have the .png suffix (as it is loaded from
the icon theme).
Otherwise ok, I just uncommented the service.


- service file content


This was ok, I uncommented the installation from debian/rules.


- service file name


This does not matter.


- osso_initialize call name


This is essential and should match the part after the "com.nokia." prefix.
Libosso trunk seems to be fixed, but this happened just recently.


- osso_initialize call version


This has no effect on anything really.


- osso_initialize call activation


This is not used at all.

I uncommented the main.c osso_initialize call...


And it just doesn't work.


And it just worked.


Helppp :)


I can just urge to try it again at this point :)

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[maemo-developers] desktop integration (resend)

[Danny Milosavljevic]

Hi,

Oookay...

I just spent four hours trying to find out how 
to integrate an application into the maemo
environment.

Now that was unneccesary and I'm giving up 
for now, hoping for help.

I ported a nice little program to maemo
(see http://www.scratchpost.org/nokia-770/packages/ ),
and it worked fine, when started from xterm.

When I tried to start by using the application 
menu, however, my osso_initialize call  
failed.

By now I tried every single one of the ~ 43000 (j/k)
combinations that could be valid in the
- desktop file
- service file content
- service file name
- osso_initialize call name
- osso_initialize call version
- osso_initialize call activation

And it just doesn't work.

For now I commented out the osso parts and now it 
can be launched from the menu. :)

However, stangely enough, now the application icon 
of the menu entry is gone. It was there before I
commented out the service stuff. I didn't comment 
out "Icon=", it's still there.

Helppp :)

And before I don't forget, a few nitpickings about the
tutorial:

-
On
http://www.maemo.org/platform/docs/tutorials/Maemo_tutorial.html#LibOSSO-library
  there is no mention how the include file needed
  for libosso is called (until wy down).

- the osso_initialize example uses a partial 
  dbus service name only, and isn't the 
  third parameter deprecated by now?

- I sure hope the weird voodoo done by 
  osso_initialize (magically prefixing
  "com.nokia.") is already gone? If not, it's 
  not mentioned. 

- And the example doesn't use "com.nokia", 
  but "org.maemo". Which would make it break in 
  mysterious ways.

- the valid chars in the dbus service name are not
  mentioned (and there is no NO DASHES warning)

- "Icon – Name of icon that represents this application" 
  (in tutorial) says:
  "Format of the file should be PNG and the prefix (.png) 
  should not be defined."

  That is probably a suffix, and my voodoo detector goes 
  off again.
  Don't ever do that. The file is called how it is called,
  no adding/removing stuff to *cough* "simplify" it please.

Phiew... now I need sleep. Good night :)

cheers,
  Danny

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